The Eden Hunter
10 best books like The Eden Hunter (Skip Horack): Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons, The Yellow Wall-Paper, A Doll's House, Heidi, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, The Little Bride, Winter Range, Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152046925 |
4.5/5stars
This was my 4th time reading the series and it was just as good as the first 3 times. Also I was able to notice and focus on many things that I haven't before.
I really like how each book focuses on different set of main characters - this way by the end of the series the reader gets...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152046917 |
Always be polite to dragons!
That's what Daystar's mother taught him...and it's a very wise lesson--one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.
But...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 1558611584 |
‘It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’
Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper'...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406914835 |
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".
The Student Edition contains these exclusive...
| Author | Johanna Spyri |
| ISBN | 0753454947 |
Heidi, a Swiss book originally published in German in 1881, was one of those books I grew up with: my mother had a simplified, abridged version of it that I read many times and loved as a child. When I realized the GR group "Catching up on the Classics" was doing it as a group read, I jumped in, excited for the...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0553347756 |
Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive and hungry."
Here is compassionate, practical,...
| Author | Anna Solomon |
| ISBN | 1594485356 |
When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota...
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel
In Winter Range, the intimate details of ranching and small-town life are woven into the suspenseful story of three people struggling to survive, to belong,...
| Author | Brian Switek |
| ISBN | 1934137294 |
“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine
““In delightful prose, [Switek] . . . superbly shows that ‘[i]f we can let go of our conceit,’ we will see the preciousness of life in all its...
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help
From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.
Jessie is nine years old and looks like the perfect little girl,...
| Author | Lucie Whitehouse |
| ISBN | 1632863200 |
When the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. Yet Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, suspects there is more to the story. Ever since she was young, Marianne had paralyzing vertigo. She would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.
Marianne...
A Short History of England
| Author | Simon Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1846684633 |
England's history is the most exciting of any nation on Earth. Its triumphs and disasters are instantly familiar, from the Norman Conquest to the two world wars, but to fully understand their significance we need to know the whole story.
A Short History of England sheds light on all the key individuals...
| Author | Anne Youngson |
| ISBN | 0857525522 |
Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ...
When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply.
When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she …
Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost...
| Author | Elizabeth Blackwell |
On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were strangers then…Con artist Charlotte Digby lied her way through London and onto the Titanic. The disaster could be her chance at a new life—if she hides the truth about her...
